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Smithfield Foods, Inc. announced today that it has terminated negotiations with respect to its proposed joint delisting takeover bid, together with Mr. Pedro Ballve, to acquire the remaining shares of Campofrio Food Group, S.A.

JSR, one of the world’s leading pig genetics businesses, has made further strides in Europe by signing a key distribution contract with Premium Pork Farms GmbH, based in Neuenkirchen, Westphalia, Germany’s prime pig production area.

Alan Mundie has been recruited as head miller by specialist feed supplement manufacturer, Ufac-UK.

An urgently needed increase in the retail price of pork would make a major difference in sustaining the UK pig industry, said Jim Burling, pig production manager of East Anglian Pig Co, at its second annual awards evening at Diss, Norfolk. Mr Burling said that a rise of around five per cent in retail selling prices was needed to counter the impact of record high feed prices and to halt pig producers sending their breeding stock to slaughter.

The 2011 Lauren Christian Pork Chop Open will be held July 19 at Veenker Memorial Golf Course in Ames. This annual event benefits the Lauren L. Christian Endowment, which provides financial support for outstanding undergraduate and graduate students and continued swine and pork educational opportunities through Iowa State University (ISU).

Rubinum Animal Health, the manufacturer of probiotic Toyocerin has appointed Sanifauna, Produtos Veterinários LDA. as their Portuguese distributor.

Employees in the pig and poultry industries are invited to enter the competition for the fifth Pfizer Trainee of the Year Awards with their £2000 training grants and prestigious presentation ceremony in London in the autumn.

The capacity of the new facility at Tambon Kuhar Sawan, Amphoe Muang, Phattalung is 620 tons/month. on March18, 2011.

DuPont, through its wholly owned subsidiary DuPont Denmark Holding ApS, announced yesterday that it has successfully completed its tender offer for all outstanding shares of common stock of Danisco for DKK 700 cash per share. The tender offer expired on May 13, 2011, at 11 p.m. CEST (5 p.m. EDT).

Pigs respond better to treatment when they are treated earlier, and a new program from Pfizer provides training and tools to Canadian swine producers for identifying sick pigs. The ABC Pig training program – offered exclusively through veterinarians – provides a simple system to identify and quantify pigs in acute, subacute and chronic stages of disease.

Experienced pig nutritionist Geoff Handley of Highspec Rural Services credits the recent push by Australia’s Pork Cooperative Research Centre (Pork CRC) to implement a national performance benchmarking program for motivating higher production levels in most of the 10 Queensland farms he consults to.

Welfare will continue to be a big issue in the pig industry and genetic selection for improved efficiency and ethics are not necessarily antagonistic to ethical production. Genetic selection can improve welfare and increase production ethically, Ed Sutcliffe told a Yorkshire conference organised by international pig-breeding company ACMC.

Maple Leaf Foods announced today that it has entered into a new four year Cdn$800 million revolving credit facility with a syndicate of Canadian, U.S. and international institutions.

From 18 to 20 May 2011, over 30 companies will bring the latest technologies and biogas management to Chinese visitors in Qingdao · More than 200 to attend the 2nd International Bio-Energy Conference on 19 May 2011

As part of the transaction to acquire Mosselprom, Cherkizovo Group has paid $42.1 mln in cash from the Group’s own funds. Given these funds have already been disbursed, the Group has amended the text of its announcement under ‘Terms of Transaction’. The original text stated “the remaining $42.1 mln will be paid in cash”, while the amended text states “the remaining $42.1 mln has been paid in cash” – this is the only revision to the announcement.

The Board of Directors of Maple Leaf Foods today announced with great sadness the death of its Chairman Wallace McCain, who passed away at the age of 81 after a lengthy struggle with pancreatic cancer.